PCStats thought it would be interesting to see how
overclocking is affected on the WindowsXP x64
Edition platform by illustrating both 32-bit and 64-bit benchmarks for an
AMD Athlon64 4000+ based system. Would the test platform be stable enough to
overclock successfully? Would WindowsXP x64 Edition require a more stable
processor than its 32-bit counterpart does?

To test out this idea, we installed the trial version of
Microsoft WindowsXP x64 Edition (180 day free trial) on an AMD Athlon64 rig and
ran some 32-bit benchmarks as well as a few new 64-bit benchmarks which were
supplied by AMD for the original release of 64-bit CPUs last year. Some of the
results are as expected, but as you'll soon see, some of the results are quite
unexpected!